The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Mexico (FGR) announced that preventive detention was issued for “The Gardener”, the alleged new leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)as well as for your financial operator.
In two statements, the authorities indicated that the alleged ringleader, identified as Audias Flores Silva, also He is accused of carrying firearms and magazines for military use only.
Its operator was identified as César Alejandro “N”, alias “El Güero Conta”. Both were sent to preventive detention after the respective judicial hearings.
The authorities indicated that, while “El Jardinero” was sent to a maximum security prison in El Altiplano“El Güero Conta” will be in the Metropolitan Prison of Puente Grande, in Jalisco.
They also pointed out that the operation to arrest the alleged leaders of the CJNG was carried out entirely by forces of the country, although it was confirmed Washington’s support to provide intelligence information.
Authorities accuse “El Jardinero” of being a key criminal operator of the CJNG, with a presence in Nayarit, Zacatecas, Michoacán, Guerrero and Jalisco, in addition to have a transnational structure dedicated to cocaine traffickingheroin and methamphetamines to the United States.
The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, celebrated these “very relevant” hits against organized crime, by ensuring that they demonstrate the “advances” of their government in terms of security.
Several experts pointed out that the detained boss was the new leader of the CJNG, an organization designated as terrorist by the United States. after the death of El Mencho two months ago in a military operation in Jaliscohistorical stronghold of the CJNG.
These arrests also occurred in a week in which the fight against drug trafficking returned to the foreground, after the US justice system accused the governor of Sinaloa (west), the ruling party Rubén Rocha, of being related to organized crime, by linking it to the Sinaloa Cartel.